Tecusmeh school board OK’s bid to remove failed transformer

TECUMSEH — The bid to remove a failed transformer from Tecumseh Middle School was awarded to Rankin Electric of Muskegon for $24,277.

The Tecumseh Board of Education accepted the low bid from the Muskegon company for the work on a unanimous vote Monday. Superintendent Mike McAran said the bids were opened Friday.

“The bid was about $10,000 less than anticipated,” he said. Work will begin as soon as the board finishes the approval process, he said.

Todd Dailey from Dailey Engineering Inc. of Onsted, the school district’s engineering firm, took prospective bidders on a walking tour of the transformer Sept. 28.

Dailey said removal of the transformer should be completed before the snow and cold weather hit.

In other business at Monday’s meeting, the board approved the purchase of two sets of textbooks on unanimous votes.

Thirty-five French III textbooks titled “Bien Dit” will be purchased at a cost of $3,376.45 from Holt Publishers, and 12 “Focus on Photography,” textbooks will be purchased from Davis Publications for $647.40.